The GRI – Community Outreach works to preserve nature through education, empowerment and community engagement.

GRI believes that sustainable and long-term conservation can only be achieved if communities living around protected areas are fully educated, fully engaged, and fully able to experience the benefits of healthy and viable eco-systems.

Targeting health, education and income generation, GRI’s Community Outreach and Education Project works with schools, clinics, women’s groups and wider communities to address the drivers of wildlife crime and inspire better management of natural resources.

Community Outreach and Education has two main objectives:

To educate, inspire and engage greater conservation awareness

To develop the communities of Rangers working on the front line of conservation

Achievements to date:

We deliver weekly conservation education to 3,000 children across Zambia

Our conservation-themed radio show reaches 30,000 listeners a week

We are building a school for the children of Wildlife Rangers living in Kafue National Park

Over 300 babies have be born complication-free at our Maternal Health Centre

We’ve provided Rotary Rollers to 15 vulnerable community members

Our District Community Officer Britius Munkombwe has earned global recognition as an Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leader